Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson_at_umich.edu>
Date: 1997/05/08
Message-ID: <TMWATSON.97May8021342@lukyduk!.umich.edu>#1/1

In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970507030700.4439D-100000_at_access5.digex.net> REX BALLARD <rballard_at_access5.digex.net> writes:
> IBM had deliberately prevented Microsoft from implementing mulitasking and
> multiuser capabilities that were desparately needed to compete with UNIX.

Hmm? Another story posted on the net said that IBM wanted a multitasking Dos 4.0, but the 80286 was rather screwed up (can't switch easly to real mode from protected mode - hurting backwards compatibility). Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT